Ah I understand now why Richard wrote that these days a connection to pure intent will do the trick nicely.
It is because pure intent is nowadays accessible (by virtue of having been personified) for any feeling being to form a connection to, this connection is experienced as a sweetness/tenderness pulling one forward towards extinction.
Whereas when pure intent was accessible only during a PCE - and as one cannot self-immolate from a PCE - then to proceeded entailed navigating the various walls of fear and mountains of dread.